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I think that, in a sense, that is exactly what is happening. How many young adults nowadays grew up with Mr. Rogers? How many of them might have been positively affected in some way by him? I suspect that he had a hand in many good things in people's lives today, even if he played just a small role.

I can honestly say that when I was a kid, I would LOVE to watch Mister Rogers...He gave me a lot of confidence and made me feel like it was okay to ask questions about the world around me and to learn. I think watching his show has helped me grow up into the curious, out of the box thinking person I am today. :)

His tone just makes you long for a role model like him for your children, I sure as hell would want him to talk to mine, and after both of these videos its so eye-opening that we need more people like him in the world. Its just placing the emphasis that we need gentle and caring teachers now more than ever that matters the most.

Fox is just trying to make its viewers feel better by absolving them of the responsibility of having raised a generation of shitty kids. Fox News is basically doing what they accuse Mister Rogers of doing: "It's okay, it's not your fault, you tried your best, you're not to blame for your own shitty parenting."

As if being special and successful are the same thing. And as if hard work automatically guarantees "success". The logic goes like this: if you're not successful, it's because you didn't work hard enough, therefore you're not special and you're just as worthless as the faceless, nameless mass of nobodies.

Yeah, Fox News was completely distorting his message (as is their habit, I suppose). He never said hard work doesn't matter and I can't remember a single thing he ever said that would give anyone a sense of entitlement. He said everyone is special, everyone is unique, and everyone has some value to offer to someone. That's true of every single person on Earth, regardless of one's level of success. It's meant to instill confidence.

A 100% class act. He's probably one of the few people that an orchestra wouldn't dare try to cut off and play off stage because of time. Heck the man caused 10 seconds of silence during a prime time awards show.

I had no idea he received this award. That speech was beautiful. I'm in tears now. Having grown up watching this man's show every morning as a child I truly feel he has helped shape me into who I am today.

Him being an ordained minister had nothing to do with any of the lessons he taught or the things he said. He didn't teach kids to think and learn and have fun and be kind because that's what Jesus wanted, he taught them that because it is the right thing to do.

In nearly everything he did, he had a reasoning that could apply to just about everyone; either Christian or Muslim or atheist or even Norse.

If Mr. Rogers used Jesus as the reason to be a good person, or to think, or to be kind to people, he would isolate a large amount of people from his message and he simply wouldn't have the following he does today.

Correct: being and acting moral is not the same as having a morality. People who claim they have morals because they are X______ are almost universal hypocrites attempting to shield themselves from criticism by hiding behind a popular belief system.

Well, kind of. There have been studies done demonstrating that remarking on a child's talents can in fact cause some laziness when compared to children who receive remarks on their efforts. All that being said, Mr. Rogers is right and Fox News is wrong--period.

Fuck that, and fuck the professor from LSU (my alma mater) who said that stupid crap. I'm sorry, but who is the better example here? Mr. Rogers? Or Teen Mom? What the hell is this shit? I don't want to live in this world anymore.

Mr. Rogers was an Episcopalian minister, and I think many people don't understand what the Episcopalian church preaches. You know those churches that post rainbows on their front doors and announce that all are welcome? That ordain gays and women? That preach the lessons of tolerance and love from the New Testament instead of picking and choosing messages to try to justify hatred from the Old Testament?

That's because he embodies the best of what a religious man should be. There's a story that conservatives used to ask him to blast or put down homosexuals, Muslims, etc. Every time, Fred's response would be to turn to the person being targeted and say, "God loves you just the way you are."

The remix made me smile, but for some reason this video made me cry. I'm a grown man crying in my cubicle at work because of a 6 minute speech on the senate floor. That was so touching and eloquent. Thank you for sharing it.

Loved the song at the end. I'm going through some heartbreak, anger, and reflection about men right now and it really helped to listen to those words. Thanks for sharing. No, I'm not crying, I just have something...in both my eyes.

Children shows during this time were so creative and heartfelt. I still sit for hours on Youtube and watch old episodes of Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers that I grew up with. I'm not sure if it is nostalgia or what, but there were some very special people behind those shows.

Mercury revolves around the sun very quickly, but rotates around its axis very, very slowly. One day on Mercury (sunrise to sunrise) is longer than one year on Mercury (one orbit around the Sun).

Each sidereal day on Mercury takes 58.65 Earth days; it takes Mercury 58.65 days (2/3's of its year) to rotate around its axis once. One day on Mercury seems to last two Mercurian years (or 176 Earth days), i.e., sunrise to sunrise. It is daytime for one Mercurian year, and nighttime for one Mercurian year. (It used to be thought that Mercury always kept the same side side towards the sun, but this is not true.)

"Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!"

I've been a lurker here for a year before I started posting last month. The topic I was most looking to post on, but haven't seen for a while, is the incomparable Mr. Rogers. I've been waiting for years to tell this story...

Sharon, Pennsylvania, 1980. Mr. Rogers is reading, as he often did, for kids at a local auditorium in the area (not too far from his hometown). As my mother explains it, we were a couple rows back when I decided to get up and run to the stage and jump on Mr. Rogers lap. As the security personnel were coming to get me, Mr. Rogers asked them to stop and said "there's no reason why the children can't come up here." At this point, all the parents let the kids do what they all were dying to do: go up to the stage and surround him as he read. I have a vague recollection of this; my mother tells me there was not a single unsmiling face in the room.

FRC produced Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, then we were called Family Communications. Now we produce Daniel Tigers Neighborhood, an animated series, which has yet to air on PBS (Labor day weekend I think?). I work on a non-TV project where I plan national trainings for police officers on how to better interact with children who've been part of some kind of serious trauma or crime.

Mr. Rogers really was a modern saint. Even today I mourn his death and really wish I had had the opportunity to meet him and talk to him. I think that if you ever want an example of a spectacular Christian, in both word, demeanor and action, he ranks right up there with people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pope John Paul II (even though I don't agree with many of the stances of the Catholic Church, he was awesome), and Nelson Mandella.

The hover text on the XKCD comic is a good summary of who he was as a person.

"Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be."

i actually got to meet him when i was a kid. my dad was flying him to film an episode or some other thing and i got to shake his hand and say hi before he left. to this day i wish i had been a little bit older so that i would have realized just how important a moment that was. the only thing i can really remember is that he was wearing a long brown over-coat.

From Wikipedia:
Rogers also believed in not acting out a different persona on camera compared to how he acted off camera, stating that "One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. I also believe that kids can spot a phony a mile away."

PBS is still awesome, though. My son could read at age 3 because World World and Superwhy made him so curious about it and got him started. Not all of the shows are great and some are actually pretty annoying, but they definitely are better than the alternatives.

Maybe we as Redditors could do something about this, with acknowledgement that the same level of programming be brought back. I'm not saying that a lot of money will be raised, but the act itself would be enough to remind people what a great service it is that they do, prompting further donations.

I think you're about 20 years too late. All these arguments and bullet points were brought up in the early 90s at the beginning of the PBS decimation by congressional republicans and private interests, and they were all steamrolled right over.

left behinde says (12:18 PM):
*you know what
*i'm not surprised that i turned out how i am
left behinde says (12:20 PM):
*i grew up with mister rogers and barney, ffs. and television shows / movies that had really good morals / messages

don't care what anyone says, there are admittedly stupid shows out there, but then there's mister rogers, barney, doug, rugrats, etc. that teach you about being open, curious about the world, being a nice person to everyone regardless of their race or gender, etc.

i'm really grateful that my mom made me watch those shows and that i was super oblivious to the world for most of my life and that i was sheltered

yeah, so many of our friends let their kids watch the iCarly stuff that seems to spend lots of time creating conflict but so little time on resolution. Quick fix is not reality. I loved Mr. Rogers and Zoom and Electric Company growing up.

I can see it now... dancing big bird, suddenly weird lumps begin to swell all over him, eventually turning into grover's head and body, which drops off and begins doing rhythmic cartwheels while smaller grovers come out of his eyes and turn into spiders with grover's head for a body and elongated oscar the grouches for legs.

I'd say more like autotune the news (without the parody factor) rather than Pogo. Pogo just mixes small sound bytes of words as opposed to sentences or phrases. But Pogo is awesome. Wishery and Bangarang are especially good.

YES. I'm 26 years old and the mere mention of this episode conjures up alarmingly clear memories of bleary eyes saturday mornings as a young lad watching this episode, mouth agape, amidst a mess of cheerios and sofa cushions

Mr rogers was and is and will forever be my inspiration as a human being. i strive to be 1/100th the man he was. we need his show back on the air, for the good of mankind.

he would be horrified if he saw that kids are killing themselves because of bullying in schools, they never learned to love themselves for who they are, and the bullies never learned to be kind, caring kids. they need his program most of all, before it gets worse.

God...damn. I haven't watched the show in an eternity and within 10 seconds of this video I was right back on the floor of my parents living room, in my blue footie pajamas, clutching my knit blankie that Grandma made me. I don't suppose NDT would consider putting the cardigan on so my kids have a chance to learn like this?